DNS Issue on Domain Controller

I have an AD Integrated Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller with SP2. The Domain Controller hung and was rebooted. The DNS Console will no longer show the records although the DNS Service is running. This server runs secondary zones. I have ran the dcdiag and repadmin which report no errors. The only event log errors I am seeing is 4010 due to records not being abot to be created on the DC. Any help is appreciated.

If this server runs secondary zones then I'm assuming you have a DC running the zones as primary.

Does your DNS console still show the zone names but no records or is it completely empty?

If it still shows the Zone name, then right-click the zone and select "Transfer new copy of zone from master"

If there is no zone names, they the .dns files could be corrupt/missing.
Double check if the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns is populated with .dns files.
These files store your zones and can be viewed in notepad.
In this case I'd suggest re-creating your secondary zones from scratch.

The Zones are AD integrated. When I right click the DNS it does not show options to reload. It onle shows the error: "Can not Contact DNS Server." Never seen situation before. You usually can just right click and reload, refresh, etc. Maybe DNS has to be scrapped and reinstalled on this DC.

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